Katharina (Banscher) Nepple 1882-1954

NEPPLE, BANSCHER, SCHIEFAN, GOODMAN, SPIESS, KLOCKE

Posted By: Joe Conroy (email)
Date: 3/14/2010 at 10:51:40

Carroll Daily Times Herald
8 Nov 1954
Page 7

Mrs. Otto Nepple
(Times Herald News Service)

Templeton -- Funeral services will be at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at Sacred Heart Church here for Mrs. Otto Nepple, 72, who died of a heart condition at 9:50 Saturday morning at St. Anthony Hospital in Carroll.

Solemn requiem mass will be read. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edward Nepple of Ashton, brother-in-law of Mrs. Nepple, will be the celebrant. Other officers of the mass will be: The Very Rev. Zeno Reising, Alton, deacon; the Rev. E. Schleyer, Breda, sub-deacon, and the Rev. William Buchholz, Templeton, master of ceremonies.

Burial will be in the parish cemetery here. Pallbearers will be Lawrence J. Bock, Herman Lohman, Ray Schaeuble, Willis Jensen, Fred Kaus and Norbert Bruggeman.

The body is resting, until the time of the final rites, at the Ohde Funeral Home in Manning, where the Christian Mothers Sodality of the Templeton Church will recite the rosary at 7:30 Monday night. Fr. Buchholz will lead the recitation at 8 o'clock.

Mrs. Nepple, the former Katherine Banscher, was born at Davenport, Iowa, Aug. 29, 1882. In 1886 she came to Carroll County with her parents.

Her marriage took place Sept. 24, 1907, at Holy Angels Church, Roselle, with Mr. Nepple's brother, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edward Nepple, officiating.

Mr. and Mrs. Nepple farmed in the vicinity of Templeton until 14 years ago, when they moved into town from their farm two miles east.

Mrs. Nepple is survived by her husband, five sons, Ed, Templeton; Alphonse, Manning; Lawrence, Templeton; Norbert, Arcadia, and Herbert, Templeton; one daughter, Mrs. Ted (Coletta) Schiefan, LeMars, and two sisters, Mrs. Clem Goodman, Algona, and Miss Anna Banscher, Alton.

Two children, Mary and Magdela, died in infancy. Also deceased are a brother, Pete Banscher, of California, and two sisters, Mrs. Henry (Margaret) Spies, Davenport, and Mrs. Henry (Rose) Klocke, Wesley.

Mrs. Nepple was a member of Sacred Heart Church and the Christian Mothers Sodality of the parish.

She had been in poor health the last few years and had been hospitalized since Oct. 27.